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Elderberries Poems - Poems about Elderberries


Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine

...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering

Like you, he p...
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Categories: elderberries, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse

Premium Memberelderberries

...vines wrapped around fence 
neatly kept and freshly picked 
elderberry pie...
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Categories: elderberries, food,
Form: Haiku



ODE TO ELEPHANT

...ODE TO ELEPHANT


Elephant Elephant 
enveloping essence of Earth !
             I hear an elevated trumpet 
             far in elixired fair forests
my ears etheric ornaments 
in your elopin...
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Categories: elderberries, animal, color, earth, extended
Form: Ode

Premium MemberWild Mountain Honey

...Old Mountain tales of love spin 
     'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls 
     drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter just like a honeybee’s dance 
     in the summer’s rush.
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Categories: elderberries, adventure, devotion, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThe Honoring of Al Munsel, Hired Hand

...Dad keeps pestering me.
   He wants to go see Al and he wants me to go along.
"Come on; it'll only take a little while," he coaxes.
   The thought of the old man, I curl my teenage lip.
   Even w...
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Categories: elderberries, bible, dad, daughter, home,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberBlue

...Blue

Why is it, if people are sad,
we say they are blue, 
when blue is such a happy color?
Blue are electric skies of October 
that bring cool breezy weather,
and find children joyfully
jump...
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Categories: elderberries, color, feelings, introspection, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlue Color Hues-

...BLUE
Sky's hue color
 U blue flowing soft tropical waters quiet 
the color is summit roses elderberries
 the color is sounding like a foghorn 
sounds of school bells
 it takes me to...
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Categories: elderberries, allusion, analogy, blue, color,
Form: Free verse

Tender Is the Day After

...Scratches and abrasions sensate,
stalking, doxing, ghosting drones
have pinched, clawed, and marked.

I remember the sharp edges of yesterday 
but cannot recall the moments
when the bumps and b...
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Categories: elderberries, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Meow

...the catbird
was eaten
by our

neighbor's
cat so now
i can

eat the uneaten
elderberries
but how

to
treat
the cat...
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Categories: elderberries, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThe Great Kiwi Debate

...Our great debate is about to start
  Over which aspect is the essential part
Of the word 'kiwi' -- Is it that strange-looking bird  
  Or is it the green, fuzzy fruit that tastes so darn good?

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Categories: elderberries, bird, conflict, confusion, fruit,
Form: Rhyme

Honoring You In Living Color

...Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and ...
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Categories: elderberries, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn

...Autumn

                 Welcome!
                  Chrysanthemum
          Cosmos cockscomb hypericum
         Let all my sweet memories come
              ‘Autumn’!

                  Pears...
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Categories: elderberries, autumn, beautiful, blue, nice,
Form: Cinquain

Habitat For the Wild By Satis Shroff

...HABITAT FOR WILD (Satis Shroff)



The flora and fauna

have a hard time

In winter.



The white mantle

Of snow covers

The branches, buds and barks.



The owl loves winter

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Categories: elderberries, animal, april, beauty, winter,
Form: Free verse

Summer's End

...Gone are the summer wildflowers
those many, subtle scented breaths
that once allured nectar seekers
and me to their wild colonies.
But now those lifeless peduncles
that once bore inflore...
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Categories: elderberries, nature,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things